{"id":15741,"date":"2024-03-01T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/?p=15741"},"modified":"2024-03-29T10:45:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T14:45:02","slug":"cuccap-scientists-identify-resistance-loci-for-fusarium-wilt-race-2-in-wild-watermelon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/2024\/03\/01\/cuccap-scientists-identify-resistance-loci-for-fusarium-wilt-race-2-in-wild-watermelon\/","title":{"rendered":"CucCAP scientists identify resistance loci for Fusarium wilt race 2 in wild watermelon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9889 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/11\/watermelon-small-logo.jpg\" alt=\"watermelon graphic\" width=\"100\" height=\"93\" \/>Fusarium wilt caused by\u00a0<em>Fusarium oxysporum<\/em>\u00a0f. sp.\u00a0<em>niveum<\/em> race 2 is a serious disease in watermelon that can reduce yields by 80%. As resistance is not available in commercial watermelon, a genome-wide association study (GWAS) was performed on accessions of a wild relative of watermelon, <em>Citrullus\u00a0amarus<\/em>.\u00a0 Several loci contributing to Fusarium resistance were identified that may facilitate future breeding efforts.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>For further reading\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1094\/PDIS-02-23-0400-RE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Genome-Wide Association Mapping and Genomic Prediction of Fusarium Wilt Race 2 Resistance in the USDA\u00a0Citrullus amarus\u00a0Collection<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby: Venkata Rao Ganaparthi, Gabriel Rennberger, Patrick Wechter, Amnon Levi, and Sandra E. Branham<br \/>\nPublished Online:28 Nov 2023 in Plant Disease, Vol. 107, No. 12.<br \/>\nDOI: 10.1094\/PDIS-02-23-0400-RE<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Genome-Wide Association Mapping and Genomic Prediction of Fusarium Wilt Race 2 Resistance in the USDA\u00a0<em>Citrullus amarus<\/em>\u00a0Collection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267,241,419],"tags":[571,515,187,572],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15741"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15741"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15863,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15741\/revisions\/15863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}